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Author : Herbert Hoffmann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Ten Centuries that Shaped the West written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Hoffmann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Ten Centuries that Shaped the West written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Ten Centuries that Shaped the West written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Hoffmann
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Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book Ten Centuries that Shaped the West written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Deverell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520964373
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Shaped by the West, Volume 1 written by William F. Deverell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westerners—black and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerless—from more than twenty states across the West and the shifting frontier. The sources included reflect the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, beginning with the pre-Columbian era in Volume 1 and taking us to the twenty-first century in Volume 2. Together, these volumes cover first encounters, conquests and revolts, indigenous land removal, slavery and labor, race, ethnicity and gender, trade and diplomacy, industrialization, migration and immigration, and changing landscapes and environments. Key Features & Benefits: Expertly curated personal letters, government documents, editorials, photos, and never before published materials offer lively, vivid introductions to the tools of history. Annotations, captions, and brief essays provide accessible entry points to an extraordinarily wide range of themes—adding context and perspective from leaders in the field. Highlights connections between western and national histories to foster critical thinking about America’s diverse past and today’s challenging issues.
Author : Anne M. Butler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631210865
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The American West written by Anne M. Butler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.
Author : Karen Hess Rogers
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603441050
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Rice University written by Karen Hess Rogers and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world,” according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston’s cultural heart, Rice University is characterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as the MOB (Marching Owl Band). In Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, more than 300 photographs tell the story of a century of student life, a world-famous faculty, and news-making events. Distinguished by its dignified architecture and stately grounds, respected for its intellectual depth and international reputation, and loved by its alumni for the community fostered by residential colleges, moderate size, and diverse campus organizations, Rice University celebrates its centennial in 2012. This collection of unique images, artfully supplemented by brief narrative, explanatory captions, and carefully chosen text sidebars, presents vignettes of significant episodes, characters, and events. A splendid commemoration of one hundred years of distinguished academics, groundbreaking research, and the spirited students and faculty who have made this institution unique among American universities, Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures pays fitting tribute to an eminent citadel of learning and the people who have made it great.
Author : University of Texas Press
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292785380
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Good Reading written by University of Texas Press and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 year since founding the University of Texas, they have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing.
Author : William Middleton
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375415432
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Double Vision written by William Middleton and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ART BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ARTNEWS** The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights. Dominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston, they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum. Now, with unprecedented access to family archives, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace, to their own early years in France, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect, and we see how, by the 1960s, their collection had grown to include 17,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, rare books, and decorative objects. And here is, as well, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in.
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786514
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Classical and Modern Interactions written by Karl Galinsky and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism, multiculturalism, the alleged decline of the United States, deconstruction, leadership, and values—these topics have been at the forefront of contemporary intellectual and cultural debate and are likely to remain so for the near future. Participants in the debate can usefully enlarge the perspective to a comparison between the Greco-Roman world and contemporary society. In this thought-provoking work, a noted classics scholar tests the ancient-modern comparison, showing what it can add to the contemporary debates and what its limitations are. Writing for intellectually adventurous readers, Galinsky explores Greece and Rome as multicultural societies, debates the merits of classicism in postmodern architecture, discusses the reign of Augustus in terms of modern leadership theories, and investigates the modern obsession with finding parallels between the supposed "decline and fall" of Rome and the "decay" of U.S. society. Within these discussions, Galinsky shows the continuing vitality of the classical tradition in the contemporary world. The Greek and Roman civilizations have provided us not only with models for conscious adaptation but also points for radical departures. This ability to change and innovate from classical models is crucial, Galinsky maintains. It creates a reciprocal process whereby contemporary issues are projected into the past while aspects of the ancient world are redefined in terms of current approaches. These essays result in a balanced assessment and stimulating restatement of some major issues in both contemporary U.S. society and the Greco-Roman world. The book, which speaks to a wide interdisciplinary audience, is based on a series of lectures that Galinsky gave as a national visiting scholar for Phi Beta Kappa. It concludes with a discussion of the role of classical studies in the United States today.
Author : Marion True
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892362235
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book A Passion for Antiquities written by Marion True and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman of New York is one of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman art in the United States and among the most important in the world. Composed of approximately three hundred objects from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique, it includes bronze statuettes, marble sculpture, vases, jewelry, lamps and candelabra, keys, weights, and silver bowls and utensils. The Fleischmans have a particular fascination with pieces associated with everyday life in antiquity, since these objects evoke a human connection to the past. They are also drawn to pieces that exemplify the human propensity to transform a functional object into a thing of beauty. Not only has their emotional response to an object’s aesthetic appeal or its historical significance guided them in their forty years of collecting, personal interests have been at work as well. The large number of pieces related to the theater or representing theatrical subjects reflects Barbara Fleischman’s lifelong love of that art. A Passion for Antiquities contains photographs and extensive catalogue entries on the objects included in the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Eighteen contributors provide art historical and descriptive information about each piece. The objects not selected for the exhibition are detailed in a checklist that specifies their origins, dates, media, and sizes. This book is the first major reference on the entire collection, since most of the objects have never before been publicly shown. To facilitate finding specific objects or groups of objects, the book is organized first chronologically and then by medium. Bibliographic sources for each entry cite both publications where the specific work is discussed as well as references to related scholarship. Karol Wight provides a chronological overview of the collection, and Oliver Taplin relates selected pieces to the development of Greek theater. The exhibition of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman’s collection and this catalogue allow us to enter into their minds and emotions so that, for a time, we can share their passion for antiquities.
Author : William F. Deverell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520965205
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Shaped by the West, Volume 2 written by William F. Deverell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westerners—black and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerless—from more than twenty states across the West and the shifting frontier. The sources included reflect the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, beginning with the pre-Columbian era in Volume 1 and taking us to the twenty-first century in Volume 2. Together, these volumes cover first encounters, conquests and revolts, indigenous land removal, slavery and labor, race, ethnicity and gender, trade and diplomacy, industrialization, migration and immigration, and changing landscapes and environments. Key Features & Benefits: Expertly curated personal letters, government documents, editorials, photos, and never before published materials offer lively, vivid introductions to the tools of history. Annotations, captions, and brief essays provide accessible entry points to an extraordinarily wide range of themes—adding context and perspective from leaders in the field. Highlights connections between western and national histories to foster critical thinking about America’s diverse past and today’s challenging issues.
Author : Jonathan Lyons
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231158955
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Islam Through Western Eyes written by Jonathan Lyons and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox News and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end politics that it cannot afford. In Islam Through Western Eyes, Jonathan Lyons unpacks Western habits of thinking and writing about Islam, conducting a careful analysis of the West's grand totalizing narrative across one thousand years of history. He observes the discourse’s corrosive effects on the social sciences, including sociology, politics, philosophy, theology, international relations, security studies, and human rights scholarship. He follows its influence on research, speeches, political strategy, and government policy, preventing the West from responding effectively to its most significant twenty-first-century challenges: the rise of Islamic power, the emergence of religious violence, and the growing tension between established social values and multicultural rights among Muslim immigrant populations. Through the intellectual "archaeology" of Michel Foucault, Lyons reveals the workings of this discourse and its underlying impact on our social, intellectual, and political lives. He then addresses issues of deep concern to Western readers—Islam and modernity, Islam and violence, and Islam and women—and proposes new ways of thinking about the Western relationship to the Islamic world.
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892360488
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal written by The J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 10 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes an Editorial Statement by the Journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, Curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, Curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, Curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems will be discussed along with the articles written by Laurie Rusco, Elisabeth Mention, Burton B. Fredericksen, John Fletcher, Thomas Kren, Gillian Wilson, Adrian Sassoon, Jiří Frel, Sheldon Nodelman, Jean-Paul Boucher, Mario A. Del Chiaro, Stéphanie Boucher, Jean-Louis Zimmermann, Patricia Tuttle, Anje Krug, Arthur Houghton, Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, René Hodot, Susan Treggiari, Emilio Rodríguez-Almeida, and Andrea Rothe.
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Ten Centuries of Art written by Henry Noel Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Ten centuries of art. Its progress in Europe from the 9th to the 19th century. With a glance at the artistic works of classical antiquity and concluding considerations on the probable influence of the Great Exhibition, etc written by Henry Noel Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Daly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441144757
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Western Power written by Jonathan Daly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. The Rise of Western Power charts the West's achievements-representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law-as well as its misdeeds-two frighteningly destructive World Wars, the Holocaust, imperialistic domination, and the Atlantic slave trade. Adopting a global perspective, Jonathan Daly explores the contributions of other cultures and civilizations to the West's emergence. Historical, geographical, and cultural factors all unfold in the narrative. Adopting a thematic structure, the book traces the rise of Western power through a series of revolutions-social, political, technological, military, commercial, and industrial, among others. The result is a clear and engaging introduction to the history of Western civilization.
